The Incident

So I wrote the below blog the night of the season finale... I was really blown away by what we saw and I immediately set out to get my thoughts down and try to make some sense of all of it... and then I didn't post it... I wanted to sit with it for a bit and see if it still made sense a couple of days later...well, as you all know, days turned into weeks... but here it is, un-edited and straight from the mind of a loon... there's a post mortem note at the end.

This very well could be the shortest of all the blog entries. And that may only last a day.... But I have to put this pen to paper and get this out.
Tonight's episode was EPIC. By far one of the most action packed, heart wrenching 2 hours of television. It literally had it all and a giant statue.
But the entire episode, for me, will live in that first 5 minutes.... The reveal of Jacob.
And not just that, the reveal of another character: Dark shirt guy.
You don't have to be a Bible scholar to see what's going on here. You also don't have to know ancient history or know how to speak Egyptian hieroglyphics.... no, the only thing you need to know is this:
Good versus Evil
This show has been about that from the beginning( remember Locke teaching Walt about backgammon? "There are 2 sides: one is light, the other is dark") and now it's all culminating into one final showdown. Or is it?
The scene at the beginning with Jacob and Dark Shirt Guy(DSG) is obviously supposed to remind of us of God and the Devil, Good vs. Evil...
Jacob is wearing a white shirt, an allusion to the light, while DSG, well, he's a little more of a brooder, if you will.
Now let me just set the record straight: I don't mean to offend any religions or beliefs you all might have. My purpose is to explain a show that is truly a mystery but quite possibly, the answer has been in front of us all along. And it has STRONG religious undertones, or in tonight's case and in my opinion, strong overtones as well. It was almost too literal.
SO Jacob brings people to the island, basically to prove a point: That all people are good inside.
DSG doesn't buy into this theology at all:
"Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?"
"You are wrong"
"Am I?... They come, fight, They destroy, They corrupt. It always ends the same."
"It only ends once. Anything that happens before that, it's just progress."

It wasn't that long ago that I wrote that the Island is the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve. The Tree of Knowledge, or Good and Evil, whatever you want to call it. God created and the Devil tempted. Ultimately Eve had the choice to eat of the tree and she made the choice. The rest is history.
This conversation between Jacob and DSG is just a continuing play on that dichotomy. This whole episode just screamed free will and faith and love and death and all the crazy things that happen in life.
And tonight LOST finally revealed it's face. The question you have to ask yourself is: Who's right? Jacob or DSG?
Apparently these two have been going at it for quite some time, with Jacob luring people to the island in the hopes that humanity will make improvements and stop fighting one another, stop succumbing to temptation and restore itself back to that perfect creation, living in Utopia, peace, Namaste. In short, Jacob has faith.
But DSG is growing tired of Jacob constantly proving DSG's own point. That man is fallible and will never return to that perfect creation. No matter how many you bring to this Island, they will all fail. They will all fight. They will all destroy. Which one has more compassion: the one who keeps setting these creatures up to fail, or the one who is resigned to the fact that evil is inherant?
That's a pretty deep question for a show about plane crash survivors. And one we may have to explore once again.
Tonight's episode was EPIC. That's really all I need to say for now.
Stay tuned for the FINAL blog of the season.... there was A LOT that happened tonight and we still have to talk about my girl Juliet becoming the hero of the day.
And one last note: surely, everyone noticed that for the first time in 5 seasons, LOST didn't end with the normal black background, white LOST logo. It switched to a white background, Black LOST logo. A change in power?

So that was it...not a lot of exact details but definitely a simplified theory... you know, The Matrix followed the same themes and a lot of people didn't like the way that trilogy played out but it's hard to satisfy everyone when you are dealing with an epic story.. our minds conjure up a larger answer than some can produce... I feel very comfortable tho, in the fact that the LOST writers will deliver a great ending next season....
That's it for me...I think I'll be handing the reins back to the old man next year, let him finish what he started...besides I have to learn how to walk...
Later peeps!
L Prez OUT